Inner Peace
If you want to bring peace to the world,
bring it from within yourself.
Reaching out to the world to change it,
and make it peaceful is to war against it.
To war against it, is to oppose it.
You can have no peace if you’re
opposed to the world.
You can have no peace within
if it doesn’t begin from within.
You have eyes which sees the world
as complete chaos, and desire order.
Actions to create order from that chaos,
is chaotic in itself.
This shows that from within,
the world has you in its powerful grip.
It is a chaotic soul from within
who wants to use chaos to create order.
Then call it peace on earth.
No, to bring peace into the world,
peace must start from within you.
That is what you’re meant to change.
Coal to a diamond, be your own stonecutter,
instead of cutting everything you see,
for you’ll naturally cut in too deep,
and harm what you most wish to preserve.
If everyone could achieve peace from within,
and end the war from within themselves,
then the manifestation of peace on earth
would come, overnight.
The sun would rise in the east,
and the soul would rise along with,
never setting again. Morning would be
forever as it were. The Now would be
an eternity of peace and bliss.
~Ellenmoksha
